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#122 Indie Life & The Future of Work - Venkatesh Rao
The Pathless Path with Paul Millerd
The Numbers Thing Is One of My Favorite Statistics
In the 1780s about 80 percent of the us was not paycheck employed so only about 20 percent was paycheck employed everybody else was basically in what was then the gig economy. If you count correctly i would say something like 40 percent of today's workforce is probably in the gig economy though it doesn't look like that in official employment stats. These people are like doing Etsy businesses they're taking little gigs they're not showing up on the radar at all, he says.
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